On 1/8/2010 1:10 PM, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
Seems like portability isn't of interest to anyone, anymore.
As Russ suggested to me a while back, the Plan 9 kernel should not
require massive rewriting to port to GCC. Go figure.
Should not but does? Because of gcc or lack of portability
it's unfortunate that computer history isn't a bigger
component of a computer science degree. in the
case of vm, it's not even history; still alive and doing
quite well as z/(vm|os) on slightly modified power arch
hardware.
- erik
In my first semester of CS my textbook had a chapter dedic
On 1/22/2010 12:59 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
Regardless of me having or not having encountered a problem, building
the whole list in advance is not really smart and will lead to
problems at some point for sure.
Thanks
R
Assuming that's true, couldn't you do some kind of trick to break it up
(
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> Even synthetic filesystems are good for moving bigger things to their
> own services, there're many cases where that wouldnt make sense, for
> example parsers. I doubt you'd really suggest putting an XML parser
> to its own filesystem for real productional use ;-p (having such a
> thing surely
lity of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabyes of
> memory at sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95%."
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> http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory
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Corey Thomasson - Web Development / Programming
Not really related, but I got a good laugh from this.
As soon as I opened this email in gmail, the "targeted ad" changed to
"Editing xml is difficult."
Followed by some stuff about Xopus xml editor, but still.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:56 PM, ron minnich wrote:
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> It just keeps getting better
Of course it's true, that's why its funny.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:15 PM, maht wrote:
> well that is true, the following snippets are not the same, the second has
> two more nodes
[...]
I wish I had that link the other day! Got into a debate about gnu cat
etc. With a member of the local LUG.
On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Tim Newsham wrote:
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> As a example for our students we use
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> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/cat.c;hb=HEAD
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> versus
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> htt
But OTOH, who's still making SOTA VHS players (ignoring the VHS/DVD
combos and VHS->USB thingies)
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Jeff Sickel wrote:
> Sometimes SOTA just has staying power. Even now, in the days of the
> streaming audio and video technologies, businesses making state of the ar
well damn
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:19 PM, maht wrote:
> On 01/04/2010 17:01, Corey Thomasson wrote:
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>> But OTOH, who's still making SOTA VHS players (ignoring the VHS/DVD
>> combos and VHS->USB thingies)
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> Search for : LG MG64 VHS VCR
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On 28 June 2010 15:06, erik quanstrom wrote:
> yet in that it does something, it does so vigorously and verbosly
> and does so less vexatiously than asn.1, which does solve the
> problem xml purports to solve.
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> - erik
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Was I supposed to hear that in my head as Hugo Weaving? Cuz' I did.
On 30 June 2010 15:54, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> A friend on AIM who I showed this quote to suggested XML should drop named
> close tags as a solution: stuff
> "C and Ratfor programmers find BEGIN and END bulky compared to { and }." -
> bwk
>
The suggestion has come up 8000 times in as many foru
On Oct 18, 2012 11:44 AM, "Kurt H Maier" wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:20:47AM -0700, Albert Skye wrote:
> > erik quanstrom wrote:
> >
> > > > The question is rather: What killed the Plan 9 desktop?
> > >
> > > poor special effects?
> >
> > it's just resting!
> > but maybe it should die
>
On 29 October 2012 23:06, Bakul Shah wrote:
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> gcc etc. are used to deliver a lot of code that is used in
> real word. And without a standard there would've been lot
> less interoperability and far more bugs.
Most interoperability delivered by gcc comes from the fact that gcc is
widespread, n
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